Lambert Sharon F, Roche Kathleen M, Saleem Farzana T, Henry Jessica S
Department of Psychology.
Department of Prevention and Community Health, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University.
Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2015 Sep;85(5):409-20. doi: 10.1037/ort0000085.
Parents' racial socialization messages, including messages focused on awareness, preparation, and strategies for managing racial discrimination, are necessary to help African American youth successfully navigate their daily lives. However, mixed findings regarding the utility of preparation for bias messages for African American youth's mental health adjustment raise questions about the conditions under which these protective racial socialization messages are most beneficial to African American youth. The current study examined the degree to which communication and trust as well as anger and alienation in the mother-adolescent relationship moderated associations between 2 types of preparation for bias messages, cultural alertness to discrimination and cultural coping with antagonism, and adolescent mental health. Participants were 106 African American adolescents (57% female; mean age = 15.41) who reported about their receipt of racial socialization messages, mother-adolescent relationship quality, and depressive symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses indicated that positive associations between cultural alertness to racial discrimination and youth depressive symptoms were weaker for boys in the context of higher mother-adolescent communication and trust; communication and trust were not similarly protective for girls. For boys, the positive associations between cultural coping with antagonism messages and depressive symptoms were stronger in the context of high anger and alienation in the mother-adolescent relationship. Findings suggest that qualities of the mother-adolescent relationship, in which preparation for bias messages are delivered, are important for understanding the mental health adjustment of African American adolescents.
父母的种族社会化信息，包括关注对种族歧视的认知、应对准备及策略的信息，对于帮助非裔美国青少年成功应对日常生活至关重要。然而，关于为偏见信息做准备对非裔美国青少年心理健康调适的效用研究结果不一，这引发了对于这些保护性种族社会化信息在何种条件下对非裔美国青少年最为有益的疑问。当前研究考察了母婴关系中的沟通与信任以及愤怒与疏离在何种程度上调节了两类偏见信息准备（对歧视的文化警觉和应对敌意的文化方式）与青少年心理健康之间的关联。研究参与者为106名非裔美国青少年（57%为女性；平均年龄 = 15.41岁），他们报告了自己收到的种族社会化信息、母婴关系质量以及抑郁症状。分层回归分析表明，在母婴沟通与信任程度较高的情况下，男孩对种族歧视的文化警觉与青少年抑郁症状之间的正向关联较弱；沟通与信任对女孩没有类似的保护作用。对于男孩而言，在母婴关系中愤怒与疏离程度较高的情况下，应对敌意信息的文化方式与抑郁症状之间的正向关联更强。研究结果表明，传递偏见信息准备的母婴关系特质对于理解非裔美国青少年的心理健康调适很重要。
